Japanese Nouns

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Japanese nouns are not that difficult to learn and there are some similarities and also important differences that I will outline below for you.

The first thing that you need to know is that unlike English Japanese nouns do not have a different form for gender. For example if I am talking about the noun bank or 'ginkoo' in Japanese there is no male or female version of the noun.

If English is your first language you will naturally think this is normal however some languages do change the noun for masculine and feminine, French and Spanish for example do.

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An important difference with Japanese nouns from how we use nouns in English is that in Japanese they also do not change the noun for singular or plural. For example the english noun Coffee is singular as we say one coffee, however if we want sat three coffees the noun now changes and we have added the letter 'S' on the end. In Japanese they do not make any changes to the noun when discussing more than one of the noun.

Nouns are also followed by particles in Japanese, these are words that indicate to use what the subject or the object of the sentence may be. Some of the most common particles are: 'wa' 'o' and 'ga'.

'Wa' indicates the topic

'Ga' indicates the subject

'O' indicates the object

'No' indicates possession

Learning which particle to place after the noun can be a little difficult to remember at first but comes with a bit of practice.

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